I was recently in line waiting to get into the High Museum on a visit to Atlanta. Living in Charleston, a small city with out large art exhibition spaces that are not focused on colonial forefathers, I need to get out in order to get my fix. There was another museum goer who was also waiting and we struck up a conversation about how going to museums sometimes is like visiting an old friend or your past self. How finding works you’ve seen before can be comforting. When I visit New York City which happens at least a few times a year, I go to church. And by church I mean the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I just can’t seem to tire of the vessels in the Egyptian wing, immediately to the right of the museum entrance. The Egyptians are said to be the first civilization to make and use vessel both for purpose and decoration. I wonder if they knew that these vessels would out live them and communicate so far into the future. In all the times I visited the same Egyptian vessels behind the those glass cases, I had not idea I would be so fixated with compulsively forming my own out of the same materials. Its been almost 5 years since I’ve been working with clay and making all kinds of functional works but I just can’t seem to tire of exploring this form. I feel they have a sense of legacy even in their decorative, conceptual simplicity. Above is a collection of Sabia vessels I’ve made in the last few years.